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Realities of the Conflict - Between Islam and Unbelief  —  In the Name of Allah, and all praise is due to Allah, and may peace and prayers be on the Messenger of Allah and on his family, companions and allies.  —  Muslim brothers everywhere: peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
ZAWAHIRI DRONES ON...
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Aaron Beard / Associated Press:
Rape Charges Dropped in Duke Case  —  DURHAM, N.C.  —  Prosecutors dropped rape charges Friday against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges.  —  According to court papers filed Friday …
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Rape Charges Dropped in Duke Case  —  The district attorney today dropped rape charges against three former Duke University lacrosse players, but plans to go forward with sexual assault and kidnapping charges, his office said.  —  Michael B. Nifong, the Durham district attorney …
CNN:
Ellison: Lawmaker has 'a lot to learn about Islam' … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Virginia lawmaker criticized for writing an "Islamophobic" letter to his constituents would be wise to learn more about Islam, the first Muslim elected to Congress said Thursday.  —  Minnesota Rep.-elect Keith …
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KCCI Poll Shows Vilsack 3rd Among Democratic Hopefuls  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — The Tom Vilsack campaign said it will get out the message that he is the best nominee for the party.  But an exclusive new poll by KCCI-TV shows he has some work to do in his own state.
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Edwards to enter race, visit Iowa
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Michael Barone / US News:
Polls for the Republican Nomination
Shreema Mehta / newstandardnews.net:
Big Pharma's Profit Pursuit Means Fewer New Drugs, Report Says  —  Although drug makers typically justify the high cost of medicines by citing research expenses, a new government report says their research investments are mostly funding highly profitable modifications of existing drug designs, not new treatments.
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Richard A. Epstein / Los Angeles Times:
The myth of the big bad drug companies  —  They're not greedy, they're over-regulated.  The result is fewer pills to cure our ills.  —  THE PHARMACEUTICAL industry is getting bad press.  Recent books by Marcia Angell, the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, and Jerome Kassirer …
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Rich Miller / Chicago Sun Times:
Pundits lose grip on reality when dealing with the Internet  —  What is it about the Internet that makes some political pundits, columnists and reporters so goofy?  It seems like almost every time I read a mainstream media story about political Web sites and bloggers, the pieces are full of ill-informed junk.
Mel Konner / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Carter's about-face betrays Jews, Christians  —  We are in that season when Jews celebrate one of their few successful rebellions against oppression.  Christians celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace.  How ironic, then, that Jewish-Americans are embroiled in a grim struggle …
Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Bickering Saudis Struggle for an Answer to Iran's Rising Influence in the Middle East  —  At a late-night reading this week, a self-styled poet raised his hand for silence and began a riff on neighboring Iraq, in the old style of Bedouin storytellers.  —  "Saddam Hussein was a real leader …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
News of a Sleighing  —  This just in: Santa Claus is coming to town.  —  Sunday is Christmas Eve.  It feels wrong to speak here of small and sentimental things such as politics.  The most passionately committed Americans right now, and the most imaginative, are children waiting for a large laughing man with a full white beard.
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Talking Points Memo:
Lovely.  —  According to Network World's Paul McNamara, the communications director for U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), Todd Shriber, hired two 'hackers' to break into the computer of his alma mater, Texas Christian University, and change his college grades.
Taylor Marsh / The Huffington Post:
Faith, Russert and Two White Guys  —  These two white guys are representative of "faith in America"?  —  This annoys the hell out of me.  —  Oops, sorry Lord, but I mean really.  —  You'd think Jesus Christ had been a conservative.  I've asked before "what would Jesus do," …
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Study Suggests Incentives on Oil Barely Help U.S.  —  The United States offers some of the most lucrative incentives in the world to companies that drill for oil in publicly owned coastal waters, but a newly released study suggests that the government is getting very little for its money.
 
 
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Exclusive: Al Qaeda U.K. on the Prowl for Targets; Encouraged …
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